Dr Shimon Eckhouse
chairman
Haematology
Alon MedTech Ventures
Israel
Biography
At Alon Medtech, Dr Eckhouse takes an active role in choosing projects and accompanying portfolio companies to success. He serves as chairman or board member of the boards of directors of incubator companies, and will be involved in the technological and business aspects of the portfolio companies. Dr Shimon Eckhouse is a co-founder of Syneron, and co-developer of the proprietary elos technology on which Syneron’s aesthetic medical devices are based. He invented and developed IPL technology, another foundation of non-invasive aesthetic medical devices. Dr Eckhouse is chairman and co-founder of CardioDex Ltd., NanoCyte Ltd., Navotek Ltd., Tulip Ltd., Rapid Medical Ltd., Opticul Diagnostic Ltd. and RealView Ltd., and chairman of Orsense Ltd. He was a co-founder and chairman of ColorChip and of Ventor Medical Technologies Ltd. Dr Eckhouse was the chairman and CEO of ESC Medical Systems. Previously, Dr Eckhouse worked at Rafael Armament Development Authority.
Research Interest
Dr Eckhouse holds a BSc in physics from the Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Irvine.
